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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 163 of Level 1, 12 March 2022.

 

Saturday 12 March 2022, Day 163 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a smooth flowing day; for a good breakfast at Botlierskop, with a beautiful yellow free range egg cheese omelet; for a careful drive to Knysna, with so many speed cameras and traps; for checking in at Turbine Hotel on Thesen Hotel, but our rooms taking another two hours to become available, so we went on a little walk on the island, the shops not much different to what I remember from a last visit at least 5 years ago; for bumping into Markus Färbinger, former owner of Ile de Pain Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 149 of Level 1, 26 February 2022

 

Saturday 26 February 2022, Day 149 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a 29C day, with no wind; for a generous day, three of my clients paying me today, and one having paid earlier this week 💙; for receiving a referral for a tourist guiding client from Thursday’s German Grischa client 💙; for being lucky to get an airport collection job for Monday via one of my clients, with my Tourist Guide hat on 💙; for a fabulous The 41 tea on the lawns at the beach, being the envy of a number of passersby, and making up for my disappointment that NO one Continue reading →

SA Travel Ban: a good news story of a German couple staying in Cape Town a week longer than planned!

 

German couple Wolfgang and Cornelial wanted some Cape sunshine, and booked a two week trip to Cape Town spontaneously.  Their travel agent booked them three destinations: Franschhoek, Sanbona, and the V& A Waterfront in Cape Town. They had visited Cape Town seven years ago.

The Travel Ban was instituted by most countries in Europe, the USA and UK on their last day, a Black Friday of 26 November.  They received notification late that evening that their Qatar flight to Frankfurt had been cancelled for the following day. Instead of being upset about it, they saw the positive side of it, in enjoying a further week in our beautiful Cape and country.  Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 48 of Level 1, 17 November 2021.

 

Wednesday 17 November 2021, Day 48 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for some good rain, in three sets of showers throughout the day, even a few minutes ago, and chilly, good early to bed weather; for the best continuous sleep last night in a long time, at 7 1/2 hours; for a hard working morning preparing for my Status meetings at newkings and at Zest, lovely meetings in the afternoon, with lots of laughing with the hotel GM Martine; for a shop at Woolworths in Piazza da Luz and for seeing the lovely Manager Gary there; for two Bakoven walks today; for two Discovery Gameboard plays; for the excitement of receiving my Continue reading →